why were so many american willing to support senator joseph mcarthy during the early 1950s?

Answer 1

Because Americans are people, and people are deeply stupid creatures with a herd mentality.

They were afraid of the communist threat so they went bonkers thinking "extreme mental instability will solve our problems"

In reality they should have just explained what communism was and how USSR was not a pure communist state. When you get down to it and study communism it is like trying to setup a country based on fairy dust and unicorn dreams

Answer 2

There are three great questions to ask about Joe McCarthy:

First, was Joe right that FDR and the New Dealers were as soft on Stalin as Neville Chamberlain had been on Hitler?

Yes. At Tehran, FDR ceded Poland to Stalin, the nation for which Britain had gone to war, asking only that he not let the word out until after the 1944 election, as FDR needed Polish votes. At Yalta, FDR ceded 10 Christian countries to Moscow, including the Baltic republics Stalin had acquired in his devil's pact with Hitler.

Truman called Stalin "Good Old Joe." When Churchill sought to rouse America with his Iron Curtain speech, Truman, according to his biographer, David McCullough, sent "a letter offering to send the [USS] Missouri to bring [Stalin] to the United States and promising to accompany him to the University of Missouri so that he might speak his mind, as Churchill had." Talk about groveling appeasement.

Second, were the FDR-Truman administrations shot through with traitors? Yes, even more deeply than we knew. Alger Hiss and Lawrence Duggan of the State Department were not only communists but Soviet spies, as was White House aide Lauchlin Currie; Treasury's No. 2 Harry Dexter White, father of the IMF; Judith Coplin, who headed up a spy ring at Justice; and William Remington at Commerce. The atom bomb project was saturated with Stalin's spies, like the Rosenbergs.

Third, was America gripped by a McCarthy-induced "hysteria" in the 1950s? Total nonsense. In Gallup polls of the era, not 1 percent of Americans ever considered "anti-communist hysteria" or McCarthyism to be great concerns. Those afraid of Joe were those who had reason to be afraid – for what they had done or failed to do.

Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information -- including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations -- are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations.

Answer 3

via fact he became into, in ordinary, suited approximately his allegations. human beings supported him via fact the substance of what he claimed became into genuine--there became right into a lot of infiltration of the U.S. government by ability of Soviet spies and brokers. curiously, Bobby Kennedy became into on McCarthy's workforce, and he and JFK have been supporters of McCarthy's efforts. JFK became into, not by the way, a staunch anti-Communist, as have been each and all of the presidents from Truman as much as Jimmy Carter. McCarthy became into some distance from the only Congressman attempting to locate the quantity of Soviet espionage. the domicile Unamerican activities Committee and the Senate inner protection Subcomittee have been additionally engaging in investigations. regrettably, the considerable factors McCarthy gave weren't that precise and he stored changing the considerable factors . So McCarthy became into an trouble-free aim for the Left, which became into desperately attempting to create a smokescreen to hide the very fact of Soviet infiltration of the federal government and discredit the completed anti-Communist stream.

Answer 4

Senator McCarthy was a true American Hero!

He exposed many evil communists

Answer 5

America needs a Joe McCarthy today with all the anti-American liberals aiding the enemy

Answer 6

Fear propaganda.
Much like Bush used and that Ruby Julie-anna is trying to use.

Answer 7

Me hates commie bastards.....eeeeerrrrrr....


- Sammity Sam

Answer 8

Out of fear and a false sense of patriotism.

Answer 9

Fear does strange things to people.

Answer 10

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